The premature Palestinian baby, Sabreen Jouda, rescued from her mother's womb, after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday.
According to the baby's uncle, her health worsened and the medical team could not save her.
Sabreen's parents and her four-year-old sister were killed in the Israeli airstrike that hit their home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
An emergency C-section was performed on the mother as first responders rushed her to a nearby hospital. She was brought 30 weeks pregnant. Sabreen was near death herself and was struggling to breathe. But yet she survived.
She was kept in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit at another hospital until she died five days later.
Rami al-Sheikh, her uncle, told the Associated Press that Sabreen was buried next to her father.
"We were attached to this baby in a crazy way,” he said, speaking near Sabreen’s grave in a cemetery in Rafah. “God had taken something from us but given us something in return (with the baby surviving after the family died).”
“But [now] he has taken them all. My brother’s family is completely wiped out. It’s been deleted from the civil registry. There is no trace of him left behind,” he added.
Over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed since the Israel-Hamas war. Protests have erupted across the world over the war in Gaza.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian delegation met Israeli officials on Friday, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war and return the remaining hostages. Though no new truce proposals were discussed, reportedly, Israel is willing to consider a limited truce in which 33 hostages would be released instead of the 40 previously under discussion.
